It’s hard not to love dogs. All the kisses and tail wags… How can you not love that? How can you especially not love their selfless and unconditional love for their owners and others around them? And what if that dog becomes a hero? Well, it’s absolutely possible. A freeway surveillance camera...

Opinions abound as to who was the original Valentine, with the most popular theory that he was a clergyman who was executed for secretly marrying couples in ancient Rome in spite of Emperor Claudius II, who felt that marriage weakened his soldiers. In any event, in A.D. 496, Pope Gelasius I declared...

Okay, this was really supposed to a simple news announcement about the new culinary classes being taught at the Los Angeles Westin Bonaventure.  But when I contacted their operations coordinator to ask for photos of the hotel, and she sent me this photo of Chef Andreas Nieto, I decided I didn't jus...

I was delighted and surprised to receive a personal copy of "The She Spot" last week from Lisa Witter , co-author and political blogger on the Huffington Post, with her letter letting me know AskPatty.com had been featured as a case study on page 102.  An avid reader, I gobbled up &qu...

So Kim and Seana, those two music-loving Ford-focus-travelling- Sync-using singer songwriters have assembled all their travel adventure videos at a giant Kim and Seana YouTube video page (http://youtube.com/user/kimandseana), and have offered our readers another chance to win some more cool prizes. ...

Now here’s a program that, had it been in place when I was in school, would have assured a pristine attendance record. High school seniors at over 200 schools in 26 Tennessee counties could win a 2008 Chevy Cobalt via the Drive for Perfection program. The program will award five students with a ne...

AAA estimates that 65.2 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the Christmas-New Year's holiday period, which is less than a one-percent increase from last year's 64.7-million travelers. However, those planning to travel during the last holiday season of the year should expe...